It seems like you gave this a lot of though and made a good decision...blended family’s don’t always work out...
“It seems like you gave this a lot of though and made a good decision...blended family’s don’t always work out...”
It’s a tough call; when I was younger I lost an aunt, and my uncle never re-married. He raised two daughters himself, and I thought that he really put them first (coming from a large family, that seemed very sad to me). I had another older family member re-marry years after his wife died; he and his second wife both had grown children (and were far past child-bearing years), and they kept everything they came to the marriage with separate (willed to their children). They lived well on their current pensions/social security, and when he died, everything he owned on his own (including the proceeds of the home he had owned with his first wife, and her life insurance proceeds) went to his “original” family.